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Study Links Park Visits and Wellbeing

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Source: University of Exeter, 2026-11-11.

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Read and understand · 1/2How many children were included?

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4,219. The opening paragraph gives the sample as 4,219 children.

Clue: Exeter reported on November 11 that children who visited parks more often tended to have better social and emotional development. The study included 4,219 children.

Read and understand · 2/2What does the study not prove?

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That park visits alone caused the difference. The second paragraph explicitly limits the causal conclusion.

Clue: The researchers used records from a long-running UK study. The link does not prove that park visits alone caused the difference.

Grammar in this story: A pattern rather than every case

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Children who visited parks more often tended to have better social and emotional development. The study does not prove that park visits alone caused the difference.

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